Talent:MURRAY
"The K" KAUFMAN
Station:WINS
New York
Date:1963
Time:3:02(Upgraded
3-3-12)

Known primarily for his work in New York and Los Angeles, Murray "The K" Kaufman has a
Canadian connection.

The Manhattan-born Kaufman was part of the original progressive rock lineup
of Toronto's CHUM-FM in 1968. Kaufman held
down the 6-8 p.m. shift and lived in Toronto in the summer of '68 before moving
on.

Kaufman was one of New York's hottest deejays from the late '50s to the
mid-'60s. HisSwingin' Soireeshow,
which originally aired in the overnight period, skyrocketed to popularity after
he succeeded scandal-tainted Alan Freed in 1959 in the
evening spot on 1010 WINS. Kaufman increased his profile by hosting rock 'n' roll shows four times a
year at Brooklyn's Fox Theatre. His penchant for playing all kinds of music -
from pop to R&B to Sinatra - boosted his listenership into the stratosphere.
Kaufman's stock was further raised when the Beatles sought him out and let him
be their unofficial spokesman in America during their historic first tours of
America in 1964. He quickly became known as the Fifth Beatle.

After WINS switched to all-news in 1965, Kaufman moved to WOR-FM, which
became North America's first progressive rock station in 1966. Already a Top 40
pioneer, Murray "The K" became a driving force in the fledgling album rock
format.

In the '70s - his place in rock radio history secure - Kaufman moved on
to stints at New York stations WNBC and WKTU and served as a consultant on the
production ofBeatlemania.He
also appeared on NBC'sMonitor.

Murray "The K" gained international exposure in the early '80s with his
syndicated programSoundtrack of
the '60s.But he had to withdraw
from the show after a year because he was ill with cancer. The six-time married
Kaufman died February 21, 1982, shortly after his 60th birthday.

He was one of Top 40 radio's most
joyful presences, and it wasn't an act. Ron Lundy loved being on the air and it
showed. He began every show with a boisterous declaration of "Hello Luv!" and
the good feelings just spread from there.

Like many a jock, Lundy got his
start in his hometown. Born in Memphis on June 25, 1934, Fred Ronald Lundy did
his first on-air shift at Memphis station WHHM when the regular deejay didn't
show. Before long, Lundy had a full-time shift at WDDT in Greenville, Mississippi, and
from there he went to WLCS in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.

In 1960, WIL program director and
on-air personality Dan Ingram brought Lundy to the St. Louis station. The two
would become life-long best friends. Ingram left WIL for WABC New York in 1961 but four
years later - on Ingram's recommendation - Lundy was hired at WABC. Lundy
debuted on the WABC all-night show on September 1, 1965 - where he called
himself The Swingin' Nightwalker - but moved to middays in May, 1966.

Lundy was WABC's midday jock for
the next 16 years, right up to the last Musicradio show which he co-hosted with
Ingram on May 10, 1982. Lundy became so identified with WABC
that a brief aircheck of him
was used in the 1969 filmMidnight
Cowboy(when character Joe Buck arrives in New York
City.)

In February, 1984, Lundy returned
to the airwaves in the 9 a.m.-noon shift at oldies-formatted WCBS-FM. Former WCBS-FM program director Joe McCoy says the shift was
created especially for Lundy, who once again followed morning man Harry Harrison on the air as
he had done for many years at WABC.

Lundy did his last WCBS-FM show on
September 18, 1997, and then retired to the small town of Bruce, Mississippi. On March
10, 2010, Lundy suffered a heart attack and passed away. He was 75.

Veteran deejay
and Rock
Radio Scrapbookcontributor
Jim Southern remembers his time at KTEO...

"It was actually a great little station to
work at, a great jingle package, lots of musical variety. I did remotes at
drive-ins and our amusement park. I earned $1.35 an hour, I was actually in the
Air Force at the time, so I had plenty of money and a car ('58 Chevy).

It was fun, just having a ball every night. Play the music, be cool, tell jokes,
boy, I'd love to do it again just like that. You know, as I drove around in
those days, it seems that every town in Texas had a bunch of real good DJ's,
even out in the sticks. Something about Texas seemed to be good to the
microphone, and the Texas accent blends well on the radio."

This all-too-brief aircheck captures all that was great about radio in
the pre-satellite, pre-cookie cutter format age. It's what we celebrate!

Dan Daniel called himself "the world's most adequate swinging disc jockey", but
he was much more than that.

Daniel spent nearly a half-century in commercial radio, beginning with his first
gig at KXYZ Houston in 1955 (he had previously worked at Armed Forces Radio with
the U.S. Navy). From there he went to WDGY Minneapolis before joining the "Good
Guys" at WMCA New York in 1961. After starting in overnights, "Dandy Dan" moved
to afternoon drive in 1963 as part of a stellar lineup that included Joe
O'Brien, Harry Harrison, Jack Spector and B. Mitchel Reed.

Daniel spent nearly nine years at WMCA, leaving in 1970 a couple of months
before the station switched to a talk format. He later played country music at
WHN and did two stints at WYNY, the last ending in 1996. New York oldies outlet
WCBS-FM
then quickly scooped him up for weekends where he spun many of the same hits he
had played three decades earlier at 'MCA. Daniel replaced Ron Lundy in late
mornings at WCBS-FM in 1997, holding the shift until his retirement from radio
in 2002.

Daniel, who would end each show with a reference to "size nine" (his wife), died
June 21, 2016. He was 82.

In 1963, CHUM Toronto
started carrying The Dick Clark Show, a syndicated program that had been offered
to other stations around North America. It was a direct response to the hiring
of the popular Dave Mickie at rival CKEY.

The programs ran on CHUM
from 7-9 p.m. weeknights for a few months beginning May 27. While fronted by
Clark, the shows were co-hosted by Dave Johnson who followed with his own
program solo from 9-10:30 p.m. Clark was on tape for all but the first show
while Johnson was live. For the story behind the story, read this from CHUM's Doug Thompson...

"Here's the deal with Dick Clark. I started at 1331 Yonge
Street in 1965 replacing a board op named Claude Deschamps. Claude was being
promoted into production, partly because of his incredible work op-ing the Dave
Johnson/Dick Clark show. Claude has told me many times how most people had no
idea that Dick wasn't actually there in the studio with Dave. Dick came into
Toronto a few times (I'm not sure how many) and recorded time checks for every
minute of his shift - It's 8:01, CHUM time 8:02, etc; temperature checks for
every conceivable temp and all kinds of other so-called live liners.

All of these individual Dick Clark elements were put on
carts. It was Claude's job to marry Dick Clark's voicetracks and Dave Johnson
live in-studio seamlessly. I also recall him telling me that they ran a party
sound effects cart under all the Dick and Dave banter so that probably helped
any differences."

This first
Clark show came from The Terrace,
a now-demolished curling club and roller skating rink in downtown Toronto. It's
interesting to hear commercials from long-ago local firms like
Mann and Martel, a major Toronto
realtor at the time.

Radio Luxembourg,The
Station of the Stars,first
signed on in 1933 and entertained millions before leaving the airwaves on
December 30, 1992. In the 1950s and '60s, Radio Luxembourg was the only radio
station on the European continent to broadcast entirely in English. For a
time, Alan Freed's
taped WINS show
appeared on Radio Luxembourg
every Saturday night.

Canadian-born David Jell got his start at
Calgary's CFAC right out of high school, eventually becoming that station's
Paris correspondent. In 1955, he moved toRadio
Luxembourg as a summer replacement deejay and eventually became a full-time jock.

Enjoy this aircheck of David Jell - which we
understand is a re-creation -here.

Enjoy this aircheck of David Jell - which we
understand is a re-creation -here.

For many Canadian boomers, Dave Mickie/Marsden
has been a big part of the soundtrack of their lives.

From his early days as legendary CKEY
night-time jock Dave Mickie, to his metamorphosis into FM rock
announcer-programmer extraordinaire David Marsden, this radio legend has
entertained a generation and while blazing a trail for the next.

But even legends
have to start somewhere. Rock Radio Scrapbook asked Marsden about his beginnings in the radio business and he was kind
enough to respond...

"After a year and a half of banging on radio station
doors and sending out scores of tapes I got my first job - CFCO Chatham.
Operator for the morning show, typing out music playlists and literally sweeping
the floor. Three months. Jack Beardall, the station owner and the only person
seemingly willing to hire me, had sold the station to Hildebrand who brought his
own team. The new Program Director was named Sandy Hoyt and he fired everyone at
the station except Frank Proctor.

At that point I had a big three months
experience and went looking for a new gig. After a couple of months I found it.CHLO
- St. Thomas. I was hired as a newsperson. After a few months I was offered the
evening shift as a DJ. At the time CHLO played what was termed as Beautiful
Music. Ray Conniff, Percy Faith etc.

After a few months of playing this music I became bored. I
liked Rock and Roll!! One night I brought my own 45s in and started playing
them. In attempt to match the Rock music David Mickie was born (I was a fan of Biondi, therefore he was my influence).

I got away with that performance for about
three weeks. Then John L. Moore - the owner - tuned in and almost had a cardiac.He
fired me the next day.About
a week later he called me at my little apartment in St. Thomas and asked me to
come to a meeting.Turns
out there had been significant phone calls and letters about 'where had Mickie
disappeared to' - he hired me back. But this time he promised I could do
whatever I wanted. ;-)
That was the turning point for CHLO. A station who later became a major rocker
in the London/St. Thomas market. During that time a goofy young kid named Paul
Skirownski (sp?) answered my phones and helped around the studio. When I left to
go to CKEY I suggested to John L. Moore that he keep Paul around. Something
about him said - radio. Today he is known as Paul Ski.

About a year after being hired back at CHLO - Walt Grealis (then a promo man for
London Records) wasin
London working the promo at station level. He tuned in and had a listen. He
visited the station and asked if I had ever thought about being in Toronto
radio.

Two weeks later I got the big call from Gene Kirby, PD for CKEY.
My dream had always been to work at CKEY. At first I thought Gene's call was a
hoax. After three calls I finally took the bait and called him back. It really
was HIM. Walt Grealis became my manager and a few weeks later I did my first
show at CKEY.

Yep - with less than two years experience I
made it to Davenport Road and CKEY. Back then one counted on having to have a
minimum of seven years. I got lucky! ;-)"

Hal Raymond saw a lot of America during
a career that lasted nearly half a century.

His first radio gig came in 1950 when he
was a senior at Hillsboro High School in south-central Illinois. His family
thought he should go into radio, so he did at WSMI in nearby Litchfield. With
his quick wit and mellifluous voice, Raymond was off and running toward an
amazing radio career.

For the next 48 years, Raymond jocked on
the west coast, in Portland, Oregon, (KISN, KGW, KEX) and Seattle (KAYO), in the
south, in Dallas (KBOX), in the mid-west, in Peoria, Illinois (WEEK) and Decatur,
Illinois (WDZ), in the east, in York, Pennsylvania, (WSBA, WOYK-AM) and in the north, in
Minneapolis (WDGY), where he can be heard in this aircheck at "The Station With
the Happy Difference", a tenure that lasted from July 1963 to September 1964.

While Raymond moved around a lot, he did
spend nearly half his career - 22 years - at WSBA, his longest time at any one
station. WSBA's Operations Manager Jim Horn said of Raymond, "he was a
superheavyweight." Raymond was at WSBA from 1973 to 1995. He then moved
cross-town to WOYK where he stayed until his retirement in 1998. He died in
2005, aged 73, after a two-year battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).

"Hal was Mr. Everyday - goes to work, boss yells at him, can't get a break. All
the tribulations an everyday guy went through," said his co-worker and friend
Jim Horn. "He was either the hero or the butt of the joke. He was an absolutely
hilarious theatre of the mind - stunts jokes and pranks. Hal had a remarkable
gift for writing comedy that people would belly-laugh out loud to."

He made his mark in Buffalo
radio, at stations like WKBW, WGR, WBUF and WECK. But just prior to his days in
the Queen City, Stan Roberts plied his trade in Central New York, at WTRY in
Troy to be exact. The easy-going style and cornball humour that made him one of
Buffalo's all-time favourite morning men is quite evident on this aircheck.

After wowing the
teen crowd in Akron and Cleveland, Pete Meyers took his Mad Daddy act to New York in
1959. It didn't play well at staid oldWNEW - Mad Daddy lasted only one shift but Myers continued on that station with
a middle-of-the-road approach more suited to 'NEW's easy listening approach. He revived his Mad Daddy persona at WINS and continued there until
that station went to an all-news format in 1965. He then returned to WNEW as
Pete Meyers.

Meyers took his own life on October 4, 1968 after learning that his shift had
been changed from afternoons to evenings.Hear
Mad Daddy on WINShere.

Like the Red Sox, Beacon Hill and baked beans, Dave Maynard was a Boston
institution.

Maynard got his start in the Hub in 1952 at WHIL, later moving to WORL
and serving as a rock 'n' roll jock at both stations. In 1958, he began a
33-year run at 50,000-watt powerhouse WBZ. He hosted music programs, mostly in
middays, until 1979 when began doing talk on the all-night show. A year later,
Maynard replaced Carl DeSuze as WBZ's morning man, and his Maynard in the
Morning Show was number-one in the market throughout its decade-long run. He
moved back to middays in 1990 and retired a year later.

An accomplished chef who wrote three cookbooks, Maynard was resident
chef in the '80s on WBZ'sEvening Magazine and also originated the Phantom
Gourmet radio show. For 21 years beginning in 1965, Maynard hosted the amateur
talent showcase Community Auditions on WBZ-TV. He also found time to
teach in the Communications Department at Boston University for 17 years
and dedicate himself to numerous charitable causes.

Maynard died February 9, 2012 in Citrus Hills,
Florida. He was 82 and had
suffered from Parkinson's Disease.

Many of the great WKBW voices of the '60s are
heard on "Instant 'KB", a sales promo distributed on vinyl to national and local
sponsors. Narrated by
Irv Weinstein, "Instant 'KB" features the voices of
deejays
Stan Roberts,
Fred Klestine,
Jay Nelson,
Dan Neaverth and
Joey Reynolds.
There's a brief snippet of a
Henry Brach newscast and a portion of Weinstein's
documentary "Buffalo and La Cosa Nostra."

The demo points out that with its 50,000-watt signal, 'KB can be heard not
only by a million and a quarter people in Erie and Niagara counties, but 17
states and 50 per cent of Canada! It also promotes 'KB's weather forecasts,
traffic bulletins, school closing information and ski reports. With all that,
how can you NOT buy time on 'KB?